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Three Megatrends That Will Affect Everybody’s Business

YoungUpstarts

Over the next five years, some African economies (Ethiopia, Mozambique and Tanzania, just to name a few) are likely to grow as fast as, or faster, than some of the recent Asian champions. The internet of everything is on its way. This growth comes with challenges however. And this change will only continue to move quicker!

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

With Safari Yetu, you pay online or via mobile, receive an SMS reservation or ticket and go to the bus station once; the day you are traveling. The internet has no barriers when it comes to reaching an international user base and these startups are capitalizing on being able to have a global reach. Africa ahead in mobile.

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Rethinking Impact Investing

thebarefootvc

My parents, who were both born and raised in different parts of Tanzania, were determined to show us the material poverty (and outsized generosity) of people on our first trip to India. At the time I couldn’t even imagine an Internet – that would have been more fantastical than the science fiction that was my genre of choice.

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Rethinking Impact Investing

thebarefootvc

My parents, who were both born and raised in different parts of Tanzania, were determined to show us the material poverty (and outsized generosity) of people on our first trip to India. At the time I couldn’t even imagine an Internet – that would have been more fantastical than the science fiction that was my genre of choice.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric Ries : I had to do the math, and it's dangerous to do the math live, but I had to look up on Wikipedia the number of English-speaking internet users, which is about 1.1 Eric Ries : So if I'm getting it right, 60 million people is something like 5% of the possible audience of people who are on the internet and speak English.